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Page 8-Thursday, August 14, 1980-The Michigan Qaily
ASKS FOR RELEASE OF BRITISH MISSIONARY
Bishop sends plea to Khomeini
By The Assoclated Press The allegation, for which the radio bassy in London. Sixty-six 'remain had been seized in the central Ir
The Archbishop of Canterbury sent a report offered no evidence, appeared to jailed, refusing to identify themselves, city of. Isfahan and accused ofs
personal plea yesterday to Ayatollah be an elaboration of an earlier, unsub: and British officials said half of them for the United States, Britait
Ruhollah Khomeini for the release of a stantiated claim that some 2,00 U.S.- yesterday resumed a hunger strike that Israel.
woman missionary jailed as an alleged trained commandos were in Egypt had been suspended last weekend. Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. A
spy, one of a number of Britons caught preparing an attack on Iran. That claim The detention of the Iranians led to Runcie, spiritual head of the worl
up in an increasingly strident Iranian was denied by Egyptian officials. angry protest rallies outside the British Anglican Communion, told a B
campaign against Britain. THE PREACHER sought to link local Embassy in Tehran, and last weekend a reporter yesterday he had sent
The British Foreign Office, mean- unrest with the United States or other Tehran newspaper reported that sonal plea to Khomeini, Iran's rel
while, was "urgently" checking reports foreign powers. He was quoted as British missionary Jean Waddell, 58, and political leader, to release Wa
that a British doctor and his wife were saying the "guerrillas" would achieve
seized in the central Iranian city of their goal by "sowing and benefitting
Yezd, and three British women teach- from internal discord." Militants Drl n ro teste
ers of the blind were expelled from among Khuzestan province's heavily PF
Iran. Arab population have been agitating for
THE LATEST anti-British actions autonomy from Khomeini's Persian- (Continued from Page3a
followed the arrest of dozens of pro- dominated regime. "We should have total draft - to keep other mothers' kids from
Khomeini Iranian demonstrators in Yesterday was the 284th day of cap- everyone should go," a demonstrator drafted and murdered by an
London last week. They also come at a tivity for the American hostages. The toting a "Read the Bible" sign coun- militaristic administration."
time when Iranian revolutionaries have next step toward possible resolution of tered. "Opposition to the government
toughened their policies toward Roman the crisis will be the selection of a Policemen quickly stepped in to end unpatriotic - it's an Ame
Catholic and other non-Islamic Cabinet by the new Iranian prime the shouting match. tradition," Sharon Presley
missionaries. minister, Mohammad Ali Rajai. The A CONTINGENT of about 15 spokeswoman for the Nat
In another development, an uniden- appointments are expected to be an- "Mothers and Others Against the Resisters of the Draft Committee
tified Moslem preacher quoted by the nounced sometime in the next week. Draft" wore black clothing and blank She told demonstrators the Comr
state-run radio in the southwestern Once he and his government are black buttons and waved black flags. had determined that at least 20 pe
Iranian province of Khuzestan claimed established, the Iranian Parliament "We're a grass roots organization," one of eligible men had so far fai]
that 30,000 "guerrillas" had massed in theoretically will be free to take up the woman said. "We started this thing af- register. "The government orig
Egypt under U.S. sponsorship and were hostage issue, as directed by Khomeini. ter Carter's State of the Union address estimated two per cent woul
awaiting an opportunity to strike BRITISH POLICE arrested 68 and now we're several thousand register," she said. "What's-
through Khuzestan to rescue the 52 Iranians last week after they staged a strong." She said that although she had going to do wiih them all - he can
American hostages held in Iran. violent protest outside the U.S. Em- no draft-age sons, she was "in this thing that many nor can he arrest them

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Another speaker, a military veteran,
said the anti-war movement was alive
now more than ever. "Over 500,000
chose to resist the draft during the
Vietnam War," he said. "We have more
than that already and it's only been two
weeks."
Several police on duty at the demon-
stration barricades summed up the
demonstration with the phrase, "It's all
right." One officer said, "This is shit
music comin' from a bunch of baby
shits."
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